Telltale Games’ “The Walking Dead: The Game” shocks the gaming world by winning four vector monkeys for game of the year, studio of the year, best adapted video game and best downloadable game

With this years Video Game Award hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, the tenth annual VGA's proved to be the biggest night in gaming ever featuring world premiere footage from highly anticipated releases and producing a number of surprises.

This year we watched Telltale Studios win the two biggest honors of the year – Game of the Year and Studio of the Year. “The Walking Dead: The Game” also won Game of the Year, Best Adapted Video Game and Best Downloadable Game. Other multiple award winners included “Journey,” which won in three categories, including Best Independent Game, Best PS3 Game, and “Halo 4” which won two awards, including Best Xbox 360 Game, and “Borderlands 2” which took home awards for Best Shooter and Best Multi-Player Game.

Additional awards included “Half-Life 2” which was revealed as the Entertainment Weekly and Spike VGA Best Game of the Decade. From “Batman: Arkham City” to “Wii Sports” and “World of Warcraft,” fans cast their ballots for their favorite game from the past ten years and voted “Half-Life 2” the winner. Additionally, fans determined the winner of the Character of the Year category by voting live on vga.spike.com, and awarded Claptrap from “Borderlands 2” with the honor.

There were never-before-seen world premieres of the most anticipated games of 2013 and beyond including two surprise world premieres of Moby Dick Studios’ “The Phantom Pain,” “From Software’s “Dark Souls II,” as well as Naughty Dog’s “The Last of Us,” Epic Games’ “Gears of War: Judgment,” Obsidian Entertainment’s “South Park: The Stick of Truth,” Konami’s “Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2,” 2K Games’ “BioShock Infinite,” Square Enix’s “Tomb Raider,” Ubisoft’s “Assassin’s Creed III: The Tyranny of King Washington,” and Microsoft Studios’ “Halo 4: Spartan Ops.”